Diena Georgetti
BIO
Georgetti aligned herself firstly with the alternative artists’ space network and preferred to keep her own counsel. Then when her singular work was recognised, Georgetti was taken up by Sutton Gallery, followed by Anna Schwartz Gallery in Melbourne in the early 1990s with other dealers to follow (including Sarah Cottier and Darren Knight in Sydney, Milani in Brisbane and Hamish McKay in Wellington).
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Collections
Various Private Collections
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b. 1966, Alice Springs, lives Brisbane
EDUCATION
1986 Diploma of Art, Queensland College of Art, Brisbane
SOLO EXHIBITIONS
2016
[as yet untitled], The Commercial Gallery, Sydney
2015
[as yet untitled], The Young, Wellington
2014
Foyer, Hamish McKay Gallery, Wellington
2013
Folk Modern, Sarah Cottier Gallery, Sydney
ACT HUNGER, (with Mary Teague), The Young, Wellington
2011
Jaguar is Jaguar, Sarah Cottier Gallery, Sydney
Brutalist Geometry Set 1 & 2, Hamish McKay Gallery, Wellington
2010
Composa, Michael Lett Gallery, Auckland
The Enthusiast, Darren Knight Gallery, Sydney
2009
Community of the People Woven Wall Hangings, Hamish McKay Gallery, Wellington
2008
The Humanity of Abstract Painting: A survey exhibition 1988-2008, curated by Max Delany and Robert Leonard, Monash University Museum of Art, Melbourne and Institute of Modern Art, Brisbane
2007
BLOK PLASTIK, Darren Knight Gallery, Sydney
2006
The Humanity of Construction Painting, Darren Knight Gallery, Sydney
2004
So far I remember who you are but wonder who you’ll be, Hamish McKay Gallery, Wellington
2003
Lost to the thing of it, Hamish McKay Gallery, Wellington
2002
The Humanity of Abstract Painting, Hamish McKay Gallery, Wellington
2001
I hardly know her, and my life is nearly over, Sarah Cottier Gallery, Sydney, Hamish Mckay Gallery, Wellington
1999
Makers, Sarah Cottier Gallery, Sydney and Australia Minx Design Studio, Melbourne
1998
You’re Living All Over Me, Anna Schwartz Gallery, Melbourne
1997
I have wept so much here, that I am touched by my own beauty, Sarah Cottier Gallery, Sydney
1996
Martyrs do not underestimate the body, Sarah Cottier Gallery, Sydney
1994
The time of your miracle will soon be over, Anna Schwartz Gallery, Melbourne
The Civilisation of the Abstract, Contemporary Art Centre of South Australia, Adelaide
The Dimension that comes from the centre of our skulls, Bellas Gallery, Brisbane
1993
The Whitening of the Recent Darkness, Sutton Gallery, Melbourne
Dare la Precedenza, 200 Gertrude Street, Melbourne
1992
NATURPHILOSOPHie, Store 5, Melbourne
Australia wie so primitive, wie so sensible, Institute of Modern Art, Brisbane
Self-titled, Sutton Gallery, Melbourne
1990
4 Diamonds (Serpent Frottage), Store 5, Melbourne
1989
Promotion Space Installation, Arch Lane Public Art, Brisbane
Empirical, State Library of Queensland, Brisbane
Rest de Kreatur, Institute of Modern Art, Brisbane
Restoration of an Alienated Being, Arch Lane Public Art, Brisbane
1988
Inneres, Arch Lane Public Art, Brisbane
Will for Amalgamation, David Jones, Brisbane
Will for Amalgamation, Mini MOCA, Museum of Contemporary Art, Brisbane
Focal Panorama, Brisbane, Rome, Dusseldorf, London, UK Landkarte
Landkarte, Interface Office, Brisbane
Recording Data, All Saints Hall, Brisbane
1987
Umrib Envoy, THAT Contemporary Art Space, Brisbane
1986
Plateau-Plateau, THAT Contemporary Art Space, Brisbane
SELECTED GROUP EXHIBITIONS
2015
The Commercial, Sydney Contemporary 2015, Carriageworks, Sydney
Casual Conversation, Minerva, Sydney
Man, Tristan Koenig Gallery, Melbourne
The Kaleidoscopic Turn, curated by Jane Devery and Serena Bentley,
National Gallery of Victoria, Melbourne
Believe not every spirit, but try the spirits, curated by Lars Bang Larsen and Marco Pasi, Monash University Museum of Art, Melbourne
2014
Girls Abstraction, Hamish McKay Gallery, Wellington
2013
Born to Concrete: Visual poetry from the collections of Heide Museum of
Modern Art and The University of Queensland, University of Queensland
Art Museum, The University of Queensland, Brisbane
Porous Moonlight, Papakura Art Gallery, Auckland
The Knock-Off Show, Slopes, Melbourne
2012
Negotiating the World: Contemporary Australian Art, National Gallery of Victoria, Melbourne
Forever Young: 30 Years of the Heide Collection, curated by Sue Cramer, Heide Museum of Modern Art, Melbourne
2011
Black elastic, two umbrellas, a mint leaf & wheels, curated by Rosemary Forde, Monash University Museum of Art, Melbourne
First Show, Station Gallery, Melbourne
2010
Before and After Science, curated by Charlotte Day and Sarah Tutton, Adelaide Biennial 2010, Art Gallery of South Australia, Adelaide
Everything is near and inflorescent, forever and present, Michael Lett Gallery, Auckland
LET IN LIGHT, Hamish McKay Gallery, Wellington
Painting (as one), Australian Experimental Art Foundation, Adelaide
2009
Temperature 2, New Queensland Art Museum of Brisbane, Brisbane
Victory over the sun, curated by Melissa Loughnan and Helen Hughes,
Utopian Slumps, Melbourne
RBS Emerging Artist Award 2009, curated by Susan Manford, Renzo Piano RBS Tower, Sydney
Cubism in Australia, curated by Sue Cramer and Lesley Harding, Heide Museum of Art, Melbourne
2008
Lost & Found: An Archeology of the Present, curated by Charlotte Day, Tarrawarra Biennial 2008, Tarrawarra Museum of Art, Healesville
The In Residence, Darren Knight Gallery at Silvershot, Melbourne
Diena Georgetti, Michael Harrison, Saskia Leek and Ricky Swallow, Hamish McKay Gallery, Wellington
2007
Diena Georgetti, Darn Arps, Mary Teague, Michael Lett Gallery, Auckland
The World in Painting, curated by Zara Stanhope, Heide Museum of Art, Melbourne, Asialink at the University of Melbourne, Australia, Phillipines,
Thailand
Artist makes video – art rage survey 1994-1998, DELL Gallery, Queensland Collage of Art, Brisbane
2006
21st Century Modern, curated by Linda Michael, Adelaide Biennial 2006, Art Gallery of South Australia, Adelaide
16, Brisbane comes to Sydney, Sydney Non Objective, Sydney
2005
Pitch Your Own Tent: Art Projects, Store 5, 1st Floor, Monash University Museum of Art, Victoria
Predictive txt, Hamish Mckay Gallery, Wellington
Makeover, Govett-Brewster Art Gallery, New Plymouth
Store 5 is…., Anna Schwartz Gallery, Melbourne
2004
So far I remember who you are but wonder who you’ll be, Hamish Mckay Gallery, Wellington
Post Contemporary Painting, Institute of Modern Art, Brisbane
Fantasy Island, Michael Lett, Auckland
Frieze Art Fair, Hamish McKay (stand), London
2003
I’m only sleeping, curated by Ronnie van Hout, Hamish McKay Gallery, Wellington
10, Sarah Cottier Gallery, Sydney
3 Way Abstraction, Monash University Museum of Art, Melbourne
Home & Away: Place and Identity in Recent Australia Art, Monash University Museum of Art, Melbourne and Swan Hill Gallery, Victoria
Liste, Michael Lett Gallery, Basel
2002
Final Exhibition, First Floor, Melbourne
ARCO, Madrid
Hamish Mckay Gallery, Basel
Art 33’02, Basel
2001
ARCO, Madrid
Sarah Cottier in Melbourne, Windspan Gallery, Melbourne
Painting: An Arcane Technology, The Ian Potter Museum of Art, Melbourne
2000
ARCO, Madrid
Art 31’00, Basel
GOLD, Sarah Cottier Gallery, Sydney
1999
Art 30’99, Basel
Patent (with Anne-Marie May), Project Space, RMIT, Melbourne
Exhumed II, Canberra Contemporary Art Space, Canberra
The Trouble with Harry, curated by Peter Westwood, Project Space, RMIT, Melbourne
Group Exhibition, Sarah Cottier Gallery, Sydney
1998
Opening Exhibition, Sarah Cottier Gallery, Sydney
Special Issue, First Floor, Melbourne
Exhumed, curated by David Noonan, Project Space, RMIT, Melbourne
1997
Record, Basel Art Fair, Basel
Aeropost, Dublin, Ireland
1996
Women Hold up Half the Sky: The Orientation of Art in the Post War
Pacific, Monash University Gallery, Melbourne
Raindrops on Roses, Sarah Cottier Gallery, Sydney
Heirloom, Monash University Gallery, Melbourne
Practice as Technology, 200 Gertrude Street, Melbourne
SWIM2, Support Women Image Makers, Project Space, RMIT, Melbourne
1995
Monash University Art Prize, curated by Judy Annear, Monash University Gallery, Melbourne
Australian Perspecta 1995, Art Gallery of New South Wales, Sydney
1993
5th Australia Sculpture Triennial, Melbourne
1992
9th Biennale of Sydney: The Boundary Rider, Art Gallery of New South Wales, Sydney
The Caboose, Ars Multiplicata, Sydney
1991
Vache, aglassofwater, Brisbane
WT Rawleigh Building The Grotto, Store 5 Travelling Exhibition, Paris France
Signals, Bellas Gallery, Brisbane
1990
Where Art Ends and Nature Begins, curated by Stephen Bram, Store 5, Melbourne
Instant, First Draft West, Sydney
10 x 10, Milburn and Arte, Brisbane
Architecture of Light, Mori Gallery, Sydney
Mist from the Chest, aglassofwater, Brisbane
Real Art, Institute of Modern Art, Brisbane
RESPECT, Milburn and Arte, Brisbane
In Full Sunlight, First Draft West, Sydney
1989
In Full Sunlight, 10 000 Feet, Melbourne and aglassofwater, Brisbane
Inexact Sciences, Arch Lane Public Art, Brisbane
Uncommon Knowledge, Queensland Art Gallery, Brisbane
Visual Poetics, Museum of Contemporary Art, Brisbane
The Truth, Arch Lane Public Art, Brisbane
Salle de Reconnaissance, Institute of Modern Art, Brisbane, Australian
Centre for Photography, Sydney and 200 Gertrude Street, Melbourne
Topographical, Bureau Artspace, Brisbane
1988
Interface Artists, Queensland Art Gallery, Brisbane
Axis: Does New York Exist?, New York, Brisbane
(I)magical Poetics, Institute of Modern Art, Brisbane
Bureau, Bureau Artspace, Brisbane
1987
A Monochrome Self, THAT Contemporary Artspace, Brisbane
Scapegrace, THAT Contemporary Artspace, Brisbane
SELECTED BIBLIOGRAPHY
2015
Patrick Hartigan, ‘Moving pictures in Sydney galleries’, The Saturday Paper, July 18, 2015
Lars Bang Larsen & Marco Pasi, ‘Believe not every spirit, but try the spirits’, exh. cat. Monash University Museum of Art, Melbourne
2013
Anne Kirker, Alex Selenitsch, Born to Concrete: Visual poetry from the collections of Heide Museum of Modern Art and The University of
Queensland, exh. cat. Heide Museum of Modern Art, Melbourne and The University of Queensland Art Museum, Brisbane, 2013
2012
Sue Cramer, ‘Forever Young: 30 Years of the Heide Collection’, exh. cat. Heide Museum of Modern Art, Melbourne, 2012
2010
Geraldine Barlow, Max Delany, Kyla McFarlane, ‘Change’, Monash University Museum of Art, Melbourne, 2010, p.165
Charlotte Day, Sarah Tutton, Before and After Science, 2010 Adelaide Biennale of Australian Art, exh.cat. Art Gallery of South Australia, Adelaide, 2010
Andrew Frost, ‘Metro picks’, Sydney Morning Herald Metro, 19-25 November 2010, p.14
Sue Cramer, Lesley Harding, Cubism and Australian Art, exh.cat. Heide Museum of Modern Art, Melbourne, 2010
Robyn McKenzie, ‘Diena Georgetti, Pleasure and Comfort’, Art & Australia, Vol. 47, Autumn 2010, p.496
2009
Anne Kirker, Diena Georgetti: Scoping two decades, eyeline, issue 68, Autumn, 2009
‘Visual Art’, The Age, July 2009
2008
Max Delany, ‘The black paintings as lexicon and manifesto’, Diena Georgetti: The Humanity of Abstract Painting 1988-2008, exh.cat. Monash
University Museum of Art, 2008, pp7-9
Robert Leonard, ‘Parallel existence: Diena Georgetti’s recent work’, DienaGeorgetti, The Humanity of Abstract Painting 1988-2008, exh.cat. Monash University Museum of Art, 2008, pp55-57
Charlotte Day, Lost & Found: An Archaeology of the Present, exh.cat. Tarra Warra Museum of Art, 2008, p.53
Rosemary Forde, review, Art World Issue 5, October/November, 2008, pp.170-171
2006
Linda Michael, ‘Diena Georgetti’, 21st Century Modern: 2006 Adelaide Biennial of Australian Art Catalogue Essay, exh.cat. Art Gallery of South
Australia, Adelaide, 2006
Andrew Frost, ‘Sarah Cottier: Back to base’, Australian Art Collector Magazine, Issue 37, July-September, 2006, p.196
2005
Charlotte Day, ‘Diena Georgetti Dare la Precendenza, A short ride in a fast machine’, Gertrude Contemporary art spaces 1985-2005, Melbourne,
Black Inc, 2005, pp. 108
N Smith, ‘Exhibit five’, Insite Winter, 2005
2003
Linda Michael, ‘Home and Away’, Place and identity in Recent Australian Art, exh.cat. Monash University Museum of Art, 2003
2001
Natalie King, Bala Star, Painting, an Arcane Technology, exh.cat. The Ian Potter Museum of Art, The University of Melbourne, Melbourne, 2001
1999
S O’Connell, Exhumed, RMIT Gallery, Melbourne, 1999
Peter Westwood, The Trouble with Harry, exh.cat. RMIT Gallery, 1999
1998
Michele Helmrich, Salle de Reconnaissance, exh.cat. Institute of Modern Art, Brisbane, May, 1998
1995
Judy Annear, Australian Perspecta 1995, Art Gallery of New South Wales, Sydney, 1995 Axis-file (catalogues) produced in conjunction with
Queensland College of Art, Humanities Department, 1995
1994
Judith Pascal, The Civilization of the Abstract, exh.cat. Contemporary Art Centre of South Australia, Adelaide, 1994
1993
Robyn McKenzie, Dare la Precedenza, exh.cat. 200 Getrude Street, Melbourne, 1993
Eve Sullivan, ‘The Caboose’, Art and Text #44, January, 1993
Penny Webb, ‘Diena Georgetti’, Agenda #29, 1993
1992
Eugene Carchesio, ‘Diena Georgetti’, The Boundary Rider, 9th Biennale of Sydney, exh.cat. Art Gallery of New South Wales, Sydney, 1992
‘wie so primitive, wie so sensible’, Institute of Modern Art, Brisbane, 1992
Gary Wilson, ‘Rosebud #2’, Store 5 Publication, Melbourne, February, 1992
1991
Yanni Florence, ‘Edelstein’, L. Pataphysics, Melbourne, 1991
1990
John Nixon, J Young, Kerb Your Dog #8, 1990
1989
Eugene Carchesio, ‘Diena Georgetti – Rest de Kreatur’, Eyeline, Issue 10, 1989
‘Creation, a Plea for Awareness’, Courier Mail, 18 April, 1989
Sue Cramer, ‘Diena Georgetti – Rest de Kreatur’, Institute of Modern Art, Brisbane, 1989
1988
Ross Harley, ‘Beyond the Gallery: Art Out of Bounds’, Vogue Bicentennial Arts Guide, 1988
Michele Helmrich, Interfacing the Interface, Eyeline, Issue 6, 1988
Interface, Art and Text 28, 1988
MOCA Bulletin 7, Museum of Contemporary Art, Brisbane, 1988
M Richards, ‘Arch Lane Offers Alternative Work’, Courier Mail, 9 December, 1988
L Sear, ‘Interface: Stars Disordered’, Art Monthly, June, 1988
Urszula Szulakowska, (I)magical Poetics, exh.cat. Institute of Modern Art, Brisbane, 1988
Kenzie Wark, ed. Ross Harley, ‘Not Just a Pretty Interface’, Outer Site: Five Contemporary Art Space Projects, Australian Bicentennial Authority,
May-June, 1988
1987
David Gofton, ‘A Monochrome Set – The Colour of your Energies’, Eyeline, Issue 1, 1987
ARTIST PUBLICATIONS
1999
Patent, exh.cat. Project Space, RMIT, Melbourne
1989
‘Karen Turnbull: Promotions’, Eyeline 10 Inexact Sciences, exh.cat. essays, Arch Lane Public Art, Brisbane traces of Information, Bureau
Artspace, Brisbane
1988
Almost Purely Fundamental, exh. handbill, THAT Contemporary Artspace, Brisbane
1987
A Monochrome Set, exh.cat. THAT Contemporary Artspace, Brisbane
COLLECTIONS
Artbank
Art Gallery of South Australia, Adelaide
Art Gallery of Western Australia, Perth
Chartwell Collection, Auckland Art Gallery Toi o Tāmaki, Auckland
Monash University Museum of Art, Melbourne
National Gallery of Australia, Canberra
National Gallery of Victoria, Melbourne
Queensland Art Gallery/Gallery of Modern Art, Brisbane